Medetomidine and atipamezole: Potential uses in laboratory animals

Lab Animal

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 21-25

  Flecknell, Paul ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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